Building an Agroecological Urbanism

Guide d’observation pour des sols vivants

It is that big ecology of care, I would also say it’s a queering ecology. And by queer I mean about disrupting and dismantling white European straight male frameworks and contexts. And so we are decolonial in practice, and we go beyond just being feminists, as I said we’re queer and spiritual because a lot of us are coming with spiritual practices and beliefs. And so for us that solidarity is collective in arriving at collective understanding and values and each others offering something.

No agroecology without decolonisation

Granville Community Kitchen

When you are stretched, it is exactly the care that becomes really hard to do. And because it is so bad to not do something with care, we will still do so, but that is when the burnout happens. So it is because care is just this unrecognized, it is a classic old thing not to value care work and it is something that is very present in our agroecologies.

The value of care

“Care is the thing that gets lost when you’re under-resourced”

Fighting the struggle of housing and growing rights together

A People’s Land Policy, Land Justice Alliance Network

I will now speak of the immense impetus I believe co-operative housekeeping would give to farming, and the revolution it would bring to it. [...] It will be the first aim of the co-operative housekeepers then, [...] to secure for each society a landed interest of its own.

Community Kitchens as Places of Solidarity

Cooperative Housekeeping

A translocal network of agroecologists

Red de municipios por la agroecología

Riga

Food systems as social systems

Urban agriculture is not agriculture.

Building Block

Productive Housing Estate

The Productive Estate looks at complementary relationships between housing and food growing spaces. It tries to overcome the latent conflict between the capacity to exercise the right to grow and the right to shelter within an urbanized context.

The city is first of all an opportunity to sell my products (at a higher price).

Beyond charity models and food waste

Good Food Box, Granville Community Kitchen

There is enough space to grow food elsewhere, there are more pressing needs for space close to the city.

The agroecological park as sheltered space and enabling environment

Here things are different

The loss of farmers is not a problem as long as productivity rises.

Building Block

Land & Market Access Incubator

The Land & Market Access Incubator develops institutional support for agroecology and coordinates this with an appropriate programme for farmers to access land, skills, infrastructure and markets at the same time.

Prioritising soil-based growing

La Cité Maraîchère de Romainville

The city is just a market.

Creating a shared future through soil care

Roving microscope

Soil care is a practice. It is something that happens day in and day out. In that sense, soil policy should not only be about how to protect soils, but is also about how to take care of the people who take care of soils.

Taking care of soil carers

Seven stories for radical soil care, OVAM